ingraft
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- ingraff (obsolete)
Verb edit
ingraft (third-person singular simple present ingrafts, present participle ingrafting, simple past and past participle ingrafted)
- Alternative spelling of engraft
- 1852, James Fenimore Cooper, Precaution[1]:
- "Why, everything about the colonel seems so seated, so ingrafted in his nature, so--so very self-satisfied, that I am afraid it would be a difficult task to take the first step in amendment--to convince him of its necessity?
- 1902, John Lord, Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIII[2]:
- The dialogue was ingrafted on the chorus, and naturally partook of its character.
- 1920, B. G. Jefferis, J. L. Nichols, Searchlights on Health[3]:
- In fact, all physical weakness, if ingrafted in either parent, is transmitted from parents to offspring […] .